Building Better Learners: Phase 1

Programme Launch: Possibilities

Leading the Learning Power Game

The online resources in Leading the Learning Power Game are aimed at helping school leaders to launch the programme successfully and to plan and guide its progress. The unit consists of sections on:

• The strategic issues involved and what the programme for staff consists of
• A distillation of key messages of Learning Power
• How blended learning programmes work
• Leadership strategies to secure Learning Power
• Keeping an eye on progress
• Ways of introducing learning power and learning friendly cultures
• Where now, what next?

Learning Power Champions

The online resources in Learning Power Champions are aimed at helping school-nominated learning champions to undertake at least two units of the programme before launching the programme to newly constructed teams and guiding its progress.

The resource is designed to support Learning Champions to:

1. Gain an overview of what the development of learning power is all about;
2. Understand how the Playing the Learning Power Game programme is designed to work across the school;
3. Experience how Professional Learning Teams work by forming one with fellow Learning Champions;
4. Decide how, as a team, you might introduce, and support the programme, to teachers throughout the school;
5. Take part in monitoring and supporting the effects of the programme as it moves along.

Online course: Playing the Learning Power Game

Playing the Learning Power Game is the core of the first phase of Building Better Learners. It consists of eight units, each expected to take about four to six weeks to implement in classrooms, using the Professional Learning Teams model.

1. Two starting points for Building Better Learners — The underlying ideas, research and models
2. Classroom relationships — Important shifts in classroom roles
3. Talking about learning power — How and when to talk Learnish
4. Celebrating learning power — What’s important in learning-friendly classrooms
5. Designing learning powered lessons — How to put dual-focused lessons together
6. A closer look at our students’ learning — What to look for and record about better learning
7. Broadening the range of learning behaviours — A catalogue of ideas
8. Impacts on cultures and on learners — How to monitor impact

Online resource: Finding Learning Power

Finding Learning Power is an online resource that sits alongside both phases of Building Better Learners. The resource offers the school and teachers:

• a manageable set of tools to enable them to collect and analyse information about their students’ learning character
• a spreadsheet package to help schools monitor, evaluate and manage their students’ learning behaviour data.

These tools help schools analyse their students’ learning behaviours and use this rich picture of learning character to underpin their approach to helping students to become better learners.

Printed pack (optional)

Also part of Phase 1 is a pack of printed publications, principally books and posters. Although optional, this is recommended as a valuable balance to the online elements.

The standard starter pack consists of:

• Three copies each of Building Learning Power, The Learning Powered School, and Learning to Learn — The Fourth Generation
• Five copies each of Building Learning Power in Action and Learning Power Heroes
• Four sets of four A2-size posters Building Learning Power: 4 Domains of Learning
• Four A2-size posters Your Learning Powered Mind
• One set of five ‘At a Glance Cards’ (A3 folded)

The pack can be tailored to a school’s needs, for example where the school has already purchased copies of some of the books, or wishes to make more copies available for staff.